During July 2000 Generation Youth Issues co-hosted a conference titled Free Play with Play Scotland. For Generation Youth Issues the importance of unsupervised play is being undermined by unnecessary intervention from adults and the risk panic of today.

The conference title of Free Play has stuck as a slogan for our work in giving children and young people the opportunity to experience equal relationships with their peers and the opportunity to develop meaningful life experience.

Below are links to the conference papers:

The importance of unsupervised play
by Jennifer Cunningham: Glasgow based paediatrician

Trust
by Kate Moorcock: teacher and author of Swings and Roundabouts

The freedom and development of young people
by Mayer Hillman: Senior Fellow Emeritus of Policy Studies Institute

Safety, play and the commercial playground
by Dr John McKendrick: Lecturer, Caledonian University

Since the end of the conference Generation Youth Issues has continued to campaign on the importance of Free Play.

Further resources are listed below:

What children lose when we make then safe by Simon Knight

Playing safe by Julian Grenier in spiked-online